I took a break from designing some new sewing patterns to make these lovely baby shower invitations for a good friend. They turned out soooo cute. She wanted to stick mostly with pink and gray. I print and cut these all at home with my Silhouette Cameo. (LOVE that thing!) It's got all the important information about the shower on a little library type card that slides into a pocket on the front. Top off the little flower embellishment with some glitter Stickles, Add some fun address labels on the envelope, and they're good to go! I'll be headed up to Dallas next weekend for the actual shower and still have all … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2013
Chevron Baby Quilt
I was holding off on sharing this finished quilt until my friend got it in the mail... Then I got caught up in posting lots of other fun projects I'd finished and just remembered that I have never shared this one! This one went together fairly quickly and I love how it turned out. Only thing I'd do differently is to make sure the points of the outside chevrons don't get cut off. I didn't realize until I was just about done, and it was too late to add on some extra on the edges. I blame my lack of a nice diagram for this one! (I much prefer to work from a scaled diagram as I'm working on quilt designs.) For this one I just went with … [Read more...]
Taxi Towel Applique
I'm teaching a machine applique class soon and was working on another class sample. This might be one of my all time favorite applique projects! I drew up a little taxi in Illustrator, cut out the pieces with my Silhouette, ironed them on, and stitched them down. Here's my illustration if you want to make your own! (Download here.) My favorite part of the whole thing might be the little seed bead tail lights!! Happy Sewing! … [Read more...]
1-Hour Accent Pillow
I made some fun samples last week for a few classes I've got coming up this month! Here's the first one: This pillow looks great and is SUPER easy to make, I promise! Here's what I did. Cut three pieces for the front of the pillow: Left side strip - 6" x 20" Gathered Center Strip - 4 1/2" x WOF (44") Right side strip - 12 1/2" x 20" The center strip will be much longer than 20". To easily gather it and make it 20" long you'll make two rows of basting stitches along either side. My first row was at a 1/4" seam and the other was about 1/8" to the side of the first row. Grab your bottom threads and gently pull to gather … [Read more...]